Ooh, gamification is not so new after all! I remember is well…
“Winners were awarded both materially and morally. Material awards were money, goods or perks specific to Socialist system, such as tickets to resorts, authorizations for a trip abroad, right to obtain a dwelling or a car outside the main queue, etc. Moral awards were honorary diploma, honorary badges, putting winners’ portraits on the “Board of Honor” (Доска Почета); work collectives were awarded with the “Transferrable Red Banner of the Socialist Emulation Winner” (Переходящее знамя победителя в социалистическом соревновании).”

this whole article is loaded with caveats – people can be freaked out by their data, people will be bored by their data – so when Tesco’s scheme is a damp squib in terms of control and autonomy over my data, it has something to fall back on and explain why it’s not giving me raw data and letting me use it as I see fit. Let’s see, the jury is just walking out…

sounds like lip-service, nod towards ‘of course, it’s good to let people access to their data’ – we’ve come a long way there! – but… there’s always a but that comes from the desire to control and treating people as consumers. That much hasn’t changed and won’t any time soon… unless we get tools that will allow us to do the online data equivalent of two fingers to the brands.

Hah, thanks for spelling out what I thought was a personal pathology – strong dislike of being called out of the blue and only answering calls from people I know and want to talk to. Asynchronous communication, FTW, indeed!

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